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Group Members

Principal Investigator

Jing Liu

Associate professor. Personality: Logician. His public profiles can be found at

• University of South Dakota
• ORCID
• Google Scholar
• arXiv
• GitHub
• YouTube
• ResearchGate
• LinkedIn
• StackExchange
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Mendeley
• Rate My Professor

Graduate Student

Laxman Paudel

• Jan. 2023 - now, neutrinoless double beta decay.

  Perry Siehien

• Jan. 2021 - now, Application of machine learning in particle physics

Keyu Ding

• Aug. 2019 - now, Cryogenic scintillator R&D.
• GitHub
• Zotero

Kyler Kooi

• 2018 December - now, HPGe detector R&D.
• Personality: Mediator
• LinkedIn
• ResearchGate
• Facebook

Yongjin Yang

• Aug. 2020 - now, Cryogenic scintillator R&D. HPGe crystal purification and growth
• GitHub

Alumni

• Hao Mei, Postdoc, May. 2019 - Nov. 2022, Ph.D. student, May. 2015 - May. 2019, HPGe crystal purification and growth.
• Wenzhao Wei, Postdoc, Aug. 2017 - Feb. 2023, Ph.D. student, Sep. 2014 - Aug. 2017, HPGe detector R&D
• Conan Bock, M.S. Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2022, neutron background for COHERENT, GitHub
• Dmitry chernyak, Postdoc, Jun. 2019 - Jun. 2020, cryogenic scintillator R&D.
• Jianchen (Byron) Li, M.S. Jan. 2018 - Dec. 2019; B.S. May. 2015 - Dec. 2017, HPGe detector simulation.
• Nathan Saunders, M.S. May 2016 - Aug. 2019, cryogenic scintillator R&D, Facebook.
• Yangyang Li, M.S. Aug. 2016 - Aug. 2019, HPGe detector data analysis.
• Tupendra Oli, M.S. Aug. 2016 - Nov. 2018, cryogenic scintillator R&D, ResearchGate.
• Mitchell Wagner, B.S. 2015. M.S. Jan. 2016 – Jun. 2018, HPGe detector R&D, Facebook.
• Arun Kumar Soma, postdoc, Jan. 2016 - Nov. 2016, HPGe detector, cryogenic scintillating detector R&D.